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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Claude Haiku 4.5 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Anthropic · DeepSeek · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Haiku 4.5 outperforms in 1 benchmarks (GPQA), while DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is better at 0 benchmarks. Claude Haiku 4.5 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Based on current benchmark, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude Haiku 4.5

  • you want the strongest raw capability — it leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2025

Choose DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
DeepSeek
Benchmark wins
1 of 1
0 of 1
Input price
$1.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$5.00 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
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Released
Oct 2025
Jan 2025
License
Proprietary
MIT

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

1 benchmarks

Claude Haiku 4.5 outperforms in 1 benchmarks (GPQA), while DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is better at 0 benchmarks.

Claude Haiku 4.5 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Thu Aug 27 2026 • llm-stats.com

Arena Performance

Playground indexes and blind preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Haiku 4.5 specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude Haiku 4.5 specifies output context (64,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5
Input200,000 tokens
Output64,000 tokens
DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Thu Aug 27 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Claude Haiku 4.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B does not.

Claude Haiku 4.5 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude Haiku 4.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Haiku 4.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B uses MIT.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude Haiku 4.5

Proprietary

Closed source

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

MIT

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Haiku 4.5 was released on 2025-10-15, while DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B was released on 2025-01-20.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is 9 months newer than DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B.

Claude Haiku 4.5

Oct 15, 2025

10 months ago

8mo newer
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Jan 20, 2025

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Haiku 4.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2025-02-01, while DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Claude Haiku 4.5's training data extends to 2025-02-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B's cutoff date.

Claude Haiku 4.5

Feb 2025

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

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Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Haiku 4.5 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Haiku 4.5
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Haiku 4.5 vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B.

Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Claude Haiku 4.5 is made by Anthropic and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is made by DeepSeek. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.

How does Claude Haiku 4.5 compare to DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B in benchmarks?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores Tau2 Retail: 83.2%, MMMLU: 83.0%, Tau2 Telecom: 83.0%, AIME 2025: 80.7%, SWE-Bench Verified: 73.3%. DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B scores MATH-500: 89.1%, AIME 2024: 80.0%, GPQA: 49.0%, LiveCodeBench: 39.6%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Haiku 4.5 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 supports 200K tokens and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude Haiku 4.5 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

Key differences include multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs MIT). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Haiku 4.5 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is developed by Anthropic and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is developed by DeepSeek.

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